Maricela Correa-ChavezResarch Assistant Professor

February 1, 2015Clark University

P-12

Parent involvement

Race and diversity

Maricela Correa-Chávez received her bachelor’s degree from UCLA
in 1999 and her doctorate in developmental psychology from the
University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005. She was
subsequently at the Graduate School of Education at UCLA, where
she was an AERA/Institute of Education Sciences postdoctoral
fellow. Correa-Chávez’s research examines learning as a cultural
activity tied to people’s participation in community traditions
and institutions like school. The focus is on the different
cultural ways children use attention in learning, social
interaction and communication. She also examines how patterns of
attention are related to family participation in community
traditions and institutions across generations. Her work with
children from a number of different cultural communities takes
place in schools and community organizations both in the U.S. and
Latin America.